Shoe-fitting stool.



A. T. REED. SHOE FITTING STOOI'..

APPLlcATmN man :uw 3o. 1.914.

Patented ay E, N145.

Bfr emerson ALLEN 'rnoUsDALE- anni), on'BYEns, Texas'.

'SHOE-FITTING' swoon.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led July* 30, 1814:. Serial No. 854,122.

To all whom .it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALIEN T..REED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Byers, in the county of Clay and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Fitting Stools; and-I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and. use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters and gures of reference marked thereon, which form a l illustrate my invention in the accom-4 panying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a measuring stool made in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectionalviewon line 2 2 of Fig. I. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Reference now being had to the -details of lthe drawings by letter, A designates a stoolwhich maybe of any suitable size or shape, preferably provided with a seat-.B2 and has an inclined portionC and D Vde's1gnates a plate glass which glass is ada ted to receive the foot F of a person'with e heel against a cross-piece G of the frame G. Underneath the plate lass is a mirror H, aording means where y the shape of the sole ofA the foot may, be seen by reflection.

Upon either side of the late glass are the Y parallel portions O of the rame upon which a graduated scale is'ormed, the numerals of the scale being designated by letter N. A. 'cross bar L has angled plates L secured at its ends which plates rest upon and move over said scale. Bar L is provided for the urpose of determining the len `h of tlie oot when the latter is pcsitione as shown 'in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Bars Q' are adapted to rest upon and are movable with angled plates' L which are supported upon the parallel portions O and each plate L has a projectionv O2, threaded at its upper end to receive -a winged nut O and each of' the projections O2 passes through one of the elongated slots-Q"which arevformed one in each of the bars Q and form means whereby the latter may be held in different adjusted positions. Rising from the bars Qarethe two graduated scales S at right an les thereto and to one of whichv an eye bolt which bolt is adapted to receive one end of a graduated scale R which latter rests upon a screw R? upon the other scale S.

A closure, designated by letter T, which :is mounted upon the frame of the device, has a lPatented May 11, 1915.. c

is fixed mirror T therein, whereby-the foot of the person may be seen by reflection and buffers T2 are laced uponthe frame and aord means or preventing the mirror T from being broken when the closure T is thrown downto cover the plate glass.

The operation of my invention will be:

readily understood `and is as follows: When it is desired to measure the foot of a-person,

the foot is'placed upon the plate glass with the foot is determined by the movement of the bar L against the end of the toe of the foot being measured; The plates L on the bar L will register over the scale at the edge of the glass and the size of the instep is determined by the strap R andthe' part S. the distance between the heel and the ball of the foot being determined by the registration of the bar Q over the scale at the side of the frame, while the mirror underneath the plate glass serves as a' means for showing Vthe person the shape of the sole of the foot. By the provision of a device made in ac cordance with my invention, it will be noted that a simple and eicient device is afforded whereby the measurements of a foot may be the heel against the line Gand the length of readily determined in order to secure a proper fit. c

What I claim to be new is: A shoe fitting stool having an inclined frame with lass therein, angle plates engaging over t e edges of .said frame and provided with threaded projections, slotted measuring bars through which said projections are adapted to pass, nuts tted upon threaded ends of said projections for bolding the slotted bars in adjusted positions, a. measuring bar rising from the inner end of each of said slotted measuring bars, and a v measuring bar connectin vthe upper ends of said measuring bars w ich rise from the linner ends of said slotted bars and adapted to pass over the instep of a foot to be measure In testimony whereof` I hereunto ax my signature in resence of two witnesses.

AL EN TROUSDALE REED. Witnesses: l

v R. L. DAv'ms,

W. N. JONES. 

